Example sentences for: irrationality

How can you use “irrationality” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Any or all of those assumptions may be wrong, of course, but in pointing to the discounting process in particular Greenspan did something important, which was get away from the simple idea of "irrationality" and move toward a more rigorous analysis of what's been happening.

  • If a work is "about" "abandon, irrationality, and ecstatic release," but its execution displays "measure, reason, and control" --one might place any number of baroque operas in this category, for instance, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, for that matter.

  • In fact, as indicated above, the irrationality of the more spectacular charismata drew concerned comment from Saint Paul in I Corinthians.

  • The Apollonian spirit is one of measure, reason, and control; the Dionysian is one of abandon, irrationality, and ecstatic release.

  • But charisma is all about irrationality, and we have little reason to believe that the followers of Khomeini were less rational than the followers of, say, Jesus.


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